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GlassFish Back on Growth Path

The downloads for
GlassFish
have not slowed down despite all the "distractions"
around the acquisition by and the integration with Oracle
but some other indicators, like jobs at
Indeed.com,
showed an impact from those events.
It's taken a bit but I think we are finally getting back on track.

The roadmap's presentations in March helped some but I the real change seems to come from
the
Commitments by Oracle at JavaOne.
Check out the Indeed.com trends graphs for GlassFish
(live, cached).
You can see the different key events in that graph:

Could the March/April drop have happened because the GlassFish future information provided at the Oracle + Sun Welcome events was not as promising as we users had hoped? We were given the "GlassFish is for development environments and WLS is for production" story.....

Could be. I didn't attend any of those events, but if they consistently
described GF/WLS that way, that would be a contributor.
Regardless of the source, my feeling is that the drop is, indeed, a reflection
of mistrust - at that time - for the position of GlassFish within Oracle.
HOpefully we are past that point now.